A simple introduction to basic algebra and how it can be used to represent real-life situations. ★ ★ ★ (ʘ‿ʘ) PLEASE RATE THIS RESOURCE! (ʘ‿ʘ) ★ ★ ★

A humorous laminate that develops students' understanding of formula (real-life equations) by constructing their own for realistic theme park situations. Can easily be extended into linear graphs. ★ ★ ★ (ʘ‿ʘ) PLEASE RATE THIS RESOURCE! (ʘ‿ʘ) ★ ★ ★

A simple Cornish-themed Excel sheet for students to use Excel formula to calculate profits based on sale percentages. You will have to provide them with values and targets, such as calculating total profit with 10% off in the winter and 5% surcharge in the summer. Unprotect the Excel sheet to extent this resource. ★ ★ ★ (ʘ‿ʘ) Please rate this resource! (ʘ‿ʘ) ★ ★ ★

A professionally-designed retro maths puzzle RPG with hours of gameplay and hundreds of puzzles. Play as Mystery, lost in a strange fantasy world full of brain-boggling puzzles. She gets EXP points for solving mathematical problems, allowing her to level up and explore the huge interactive world. Puzzles range from basic to extremely challenging, a pen and paper is almost certainly required to solve them! The game has music and sound effects. Everything is controlled using the ARROW KEYS, ENTER/SPACE & ESCAPE keys. This game does not need to be installed so you can extract the folder to a shared drive on the school system and use the "Save Location" file to point to the student drive. This means students can play their own unique game from any computer in school while saving their progress at any time. Enter your school's name into the "School Name" file for a hidden "Easter egg" within the game. Please contact me with any technical queries. If you use this game for multiple classes in your school an extra donation would be appreciated. This game took a LONG time to create! ★ ★ ★ ☺ Please rate this resource! ☺ ★ ★ ★

A challenging integration worksheet designed to be printed as a colourful laminate. The GeoGebra file used to create this resource is also included. ★ ★ ★ ☺ Please rate this resource! ☺ ★ ★ ★

8 challenging differentiation questions designed to encourage critical thinking about differentiation, turning points and the second derivative. ★ ★ ★ ☺ Please rate this resource! ☺ ★ ★ ★

A highly-challenging space-themed worksheet requiring C1 coordinate geometry and C2 differentiation. GeoGebra files that were used to create the questions are also included for teacher reference. ★ ★ ★ ☺ Please rate this resource! ☺ ★ ★ ★

A quick-fire browser-based mental maths game where the answer is always 7, 8 or 9. You have 78.9 seconds to answer as many questions as possible, make sure you use your keyboard keys 7, 8 & 9 for maximum speed. A highly addictive game with an in-built leaderboard. Great on an interactive whiteboard in the classroom or for all students in the computer room. Should be compatible with all browsers except Firefox. Playable on tablets and phones although the leaderboard only functions on PCs. Please contact me with any technical queries. ★ ★ ★ ☺ Please rate this resource! ☺ ★ ★ ★

An interactive offline website with 27 sets of 3-differentiated-question problem-solving starters. There is an in-built reward system where achievements are unlocked for entering the correct solution to each question. "Green" questions are designed to be accessible to all ability groups, but still require some resilience and problem-solving techniques. Yellow questions provide greater challenge and red questions can be exceptionally challenging. Unzip everything into a folder and run BrainBoost.html. Optimised for Google Chrome. Please contact me with any technical queries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 🌟🌟🌟 . . 😊 . . PLEASE RATE THIS RESOURCE . . 😊 . . 🌟🌟🌟. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Carefully designed to develop a conceptual understanding of algebraic expansion and factorisation. Firstly it encourages students think carefully about how multiplication works, making links between the "grid method" and the area of rectangles. This leads into a connected understanding of how algebraic expansion and factorisation works with particular regard to algebraic area. Designed to be printed two pages per sheet. ★ ★ ★ ☺ Please rate this resource! ☺ ★ ★ ★

A worksheet designed to be made into a colourful laminate that demonstrates where thinking about algebraic expansion and factorisation may be useful in real-life situations. Followed by a PowerPoint full of questions of with an increasing level of challenge. ★ ★ ★ ☺ Please rate this resource! ☺ ★ ★ ★

A Studio Ghibli themed presentation carefully designed for students to discover what effect an x-squared coefficient has when double-brackets are expanded, and hence figure out how to factorise such quadratics for themselves. ★ ★ ★ ☺ Please rate this resource! ☺ ★ ★ ★

A challenging resource that requires students to construct and solve equations and formulae based on "real-life" situations (rugby, unicorns, Minecraft & phones). Designed to be made into a colourful two-sided laminate. ★ ★ ★ ☺ Please rate this resource! ☺ ★ ★ ★